Steppenwolf Identity Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Preface if applicable, Paragraph)

Quote #7

And while I, Harry Haller, stood there in the street, flattered and surprised and studiously polite and smiling into the good fellow's kindly, short-sighted face, there stood the other Harry, too, at my elbow and grinned likewise. (85)

You know those moments where you want to laugh at a funeral or scream in the middle of the library? Maybe that's just your other, mischievous self coming out.

Quote #8

Within me, the battle raged furiously. (86)

For Harry identity is a violent concept. In this metaphor he compares his desires to be social and be antisocial, which are pretty contradictory, to a war going on inside of him.

Quote #9

"One wouldn't know you. You were so dull and flat before." (472)

Once Harry finds Hermine he finally gets into the party mood and the people around him think of him as a completely different person. His identity is very fluid, as though he were changing from one person to another.